Given that the March For Life has achieved some great successes over the years to protect human life, it has done so only for some human life (those embryos and fetuses sexually reproduced/fertilization) -- not all human life (including those a-sexually reproduced through cloning, genetic engineering, etc.). And given the current hype surrounding human genetic engineering and "gene editing", the March For Life might need to worry that these a-sexually reproduced human embryos will likely be implanted into women for experimental purposes as well as for supposed "infertility" purposes. After all, those cloned and genetically engineered human embryos are "just a bunch of cells" -- right? Wrong.
The accurate scientific facts of human embryology documenting both sexual and a-sexual human reproduction have been acknowledged around the world for over 100 years by the experts in the field -- Ph.D. human embryologists. Even the Carnegie Stages of Early Human Embryonic Development address human a-sexual reproduction in Stages 2 through 5 -- and have done so since 1942! Human molecular genetics texts have also long acknowledged, and explained, how human a-sexual reproduction is accomplished. Thus I can't understand how the March For Life continues to misinform prolifers and leave a-sexually reproduced human beings out of their "Life Principles"? The consequences are deadly.
Sad to say, this has been going on a very long time; I even presented the accurate human embryology to the March For Life years ago at several of their conferences. I've tried diplomacy and collegiality with the March for Life for years, but never get any response whatsoever. So one seriously has to wonder just what is their motivation in continuing to knowingly promote such erroneous human embryology? Once again, the March For Life's "Life Principles" apply only to some human beings, but hardly to all of them .
Note in their Life Principles copied below the following scientific errors:
Thus according to these Life Principles, once again, natural identical twins gestating within the mother's body can be aborted, and artificially a-sexually reproduced human embryos can be used in destructive scientific research as well as implanted into women. Note the third "Life Principle" below:
http://marchforlife.org/life-principles-932/
These Life Principles express the ideals motivating prolife Americans and indicate the purpose of the MARCH FOR LIFE:
- We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all human beings are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among which is the right to life, and Therefore
- The right to life of each human being shall be preserved and protected by every human being in the society and by the society as a whole, and
- The life of each human being shall be preserved and protected from that human being's biological beginning when the Father's sperm fertilizes the Mother's ovum, and
- The life of each human being shall be preserved and protected from the biological beginning throughout the natural continuum of that human being's life by all available ordinary means and reasonable efforts, and
- The life of each human being shall be preserved and protected at each stage of the life continuum to the same extent as at each and every other stage regardless of state of health or condition of dependency, and
- The life of each human being shall be preserved and protected to the same extent as the life of each and every other human being regardless of state of health or condition of dependency, and
- When there is any doubt that there exists a human being's life to preserve and protect, such doubt shall be resolved In favor of the existence of a human being, and
- When two or more human beings are in a situation in which their lives are mutually endangered, all available ordinary means and reasonable efforts shall be used to preserve and protect the life of each and every human being so endangered:
- WHEREFORE, Pursuant To These Principles, we recommend and urge the adoption of a Mandatory HUMAN LIFE AMENDMENT to the Constitution of the United States of America.
For those who are genuinely prolife, intellectually honest, and really want to know the objective scientific facts that ground their prolife position , please check the extensive scientific references acknowledged around the world for over 100 years in many of my articles listed here that scientifically document the reality of both sexually and a-sexually reproduced human embryos, who also deserve protestion: Irving:
Any questions just let me know.